The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-11
INTERESTING GOSSIP OF THE DA1

ExJudge Arnoux started on his vacation bright and
happy. and with the joles ancipaons for tho summer
and early fall months Information, however. was re-
ceived yesterday at his ONCE in Wall street that 1t will
probably be number OF weeks before the Judge
work He is lying at his hotel in Vineyard Haven
with broken knee cap. bound up with plaster. Until
he returns nothing be done In Mr. Loubat's suit
against August Belmont and others Of the Union Club
One of the sights Of the week when William Willis
Merrill treated dozen downtown brokers to 2ocent
cigars In Ed stokess Annex In Beaver street Mr. Mer
rill has hitherto strongly disapproved of kind Of
stimuant tobacco or rum and his brother brokers Of
the Produce Exchange have not yet received any ex
PLANTATION of his altered conduct
Some down town croakers say that now the Consoli
dated Stock and Petroleum Exchange In to have .
building is In order to sell its tickets Of membership
short" why' Simply because Cotton Exchange
memberships dropped from $4,000 to 1900 after the
got into their new building and the tickets
to the Produce Exchange have fallen from e. 500
si.sSo since its members formally entered the new
building.
Commissioner David II. Knapp OF tho Board of Educa
ton In speaking Of the wages paid to bookkeepeIS now
adays that tho price paid to-day. every
thing considered not much above that Of forty
ago. Didn't my old friend Thomas Lewis the retired
roofer Of Rose advertise forty in The
SITS 7" he remarked "In fact didn't prepare the ad
myself for bookkesper and didn't get 40 answers
Certainly did and the average wages asked by the
applicants were $40 week" It 10 declared that the
average salary Of bookkeepors in New York IL SO
week, and considering the Of living the days
forty ago this only equivalent the $40 paid
by Commissioner Knapp's old friend
Lawson N Fuller who With Russell Sage, will try to
break the 2:37 record for fourth hands Fleetwood
track this fall, says he hasn't missed meal In thirty
three years and attributes his healthy appetite
tinuous driving ~ never tired Of driving" hesayS
driving the best ana gentle exercise after
eating Horseback riding u altogether too violent
have driven $4,000 miles this Manhattan Island
alone. When was four weeks old my mother rode on
horseback with In her lap and when was four
old Saloped alone on horseback from St. Adams TO my
homo in Bakersneld nfteen miles away. But stick 70
driving II you want an appetite and good Digestion"
Alexander Meakim Of the Produce Exchange and the
Hoffman House corridors II around with swollen
and chest but his friends say they the
comforting wounds he or any man could have They
were got when Nj Meakim plunged into the ocean at
Long Branch the other day and rescued young woman
from drowning Mr. Msakim will long msmbsr the
and thanks Of the greatly frightened young woman
and is happy over his bruses
James Drew the old volunteer fireman of Brooklyn,
wceps he couldn't 20 with the boys on their
Western trp. He Is daily comforted however BY tho
train OF kilograms sent 10 him by his old companions
and especially from Martin Rouse The kilograms
speak OF the scarcity OF water among the
and OF them thus: "Whiskey poor beer good;
both better than water and aIl on tho warpath."
Theatrical managers say interior towns aad cities
will SEQ mighty few theatrical and comic opera com.
panies during the coming winter Tho managers
say that these and cities have been
with rckety companies that last they have refused
bamboozled any longer. This refusal patronize
these snap companies" said manager. will ulti.
matey be the best thing for and OF
merit. The shiftless and incompetent will sink
into oblivion, and In season two when the interior
people convinced that the standard Of travelling
companies improved they will generously support
them and there will be shii ming back to the
metropolis railroad ties leaving wardrobes and
scenery for hotel bills"
Ex-senator John J. Herman yesterday showed letter
from Kempton Fuller the Philadelphia lawyers for
the owners OF the stockton House Cape May which
minded the ex-senator that inasmuch Henry Clair
In for rent &c, TO the tune OF $4,000 hs
Che eI SenHtor) held liable for the amount
Of Csirs snreties The ex-senator sent check for the
amount and. although he spoke highly Of Clair, he
vocerously declared that he's with Solomon hereafter
going the bonds OF anybody short Of Gabriel
Jessie Bartlett DAyiA the eontrato Of the detunct
American National Opera Company, has been In Paris
the past summer under the musical instruction OF La
grange, She has developed talent for song writing
and one OF her songs has been published. She win
turn to America about the frst Of October.